Welcome! I'm Eric Lerner, CIO/CMO, manager of application
development and internet marketing consulting practice manager at
Millenium Multimedia Corporation, specializing since 1998 in
n-tiered Microsoft and .Net public facing web,
intranet, extranet, LOB and SharePoint Portal applications leveraging the
Microsoft web development stack, including Windows Server, IIS,
Visual Studio, ASP.Net, C#, VB.Net and SQL databases.
My focus is on improving the speed and accuracy of information
flows, decreasing costs, improving quality and where possible
improving the top line to improve ROI. I have achieved great success in web marketing, including
SEO/SEM/SMM.
I am at heart an entrpreneurial and business/marketing savvy
Manager of Application Development a.k.a.
Software Development Manager or Senior Software
Development Engineer or Senior Project Manager
or Web Product Manager who is passionate about
technology and enjoys wearing the .Net Solution Architect
and Development Team Lead hat as a field marshall
while facing the business as a Senior Business Analyst and IT,
collaboration or web marketing strategist. I'm not
hung up on titles; I'm all about hybrid functional and technical
roles in environments where I am able to make great things happen
behind or in front of the firewall.
I am a seasoned Web Application Development Engineer and
Application Development Manager
or Director of Software Development
with deep application development team leadership experience
developed over the course of a long and diverse career and I possess
current, hands-on web application development, internet marketing
and web analytics skills.
I am also a
Microsoft Partner and hold the Silver ISV Competency for achieving
Platform Ready status for developing and Platform Ready testing a commercial quality web application on
several occasions. I'm accustomed to straddling the
business, technology and people sides of IT in web application, SharePoint Portal
and line of business application development initiatives, with a
strong emphasis on management information systems, knowledge
management, collaboration and business process
engineering/re-engineering.
I am a field marshall looking for leadership roles surrounding
.Net web application
development. I
have been the Director of Information Technology for a major New
York City non-profit, Director of Application Development and
Internet Marketing for a .Net web CMS product and services provider
and built a mini-empire as a Web Content Publisher, a
Senior Product/Program Manager for integration bridges into and from
a $75M web services/SOA web product in the financial industry,
Application Development Manager for the likes of Estee Lauder, Koch
Records and several entertainment/media companies, and
also was Manager of Application
Development for ING Real Estate during their acquisition of Clarion
Partners, where I had several repeat consulting engagements and I
have worked for that same CIO at multiple market leaders in the Real
Estate industry over the
years, including my most recent engagement at Silverstein
Properties, the World Trade Center developer.
Repeat engagements are not unusual in my history. For
example I had 4 engagements at the New York City Law Department
spaced out over nearly a
decade - talk about FULL CYCLE! For numerous clients over the years, I have held
roles such as Senior Product Manager, Senior Program Manager and
Senior Project Manager as well as .Net Solution Architect, Senior Business
Analyst and Senior Developer/Development Team Lead.
I'm equally comfortable writing an RFP as responding to a
Statement of Work. I'm adept at managing project plans,
budgets, risk, timelines, deliverables and mentoring team members,
and I am adept in delivery, e.g. process modeling, data flow
diagrams, designing SQL databases,
architecting web applications as an n-tiered .Net solution
architect.
I drive software implementations through the full Software
Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the full Project Life Cycle (PLC), from
visioning/inception through elaboration, implementation, testing,
closeout/transfer and evolution.
My value proposition centers on aligning technology with the
business needs and requirements, opportunities, strengths and
weaknesses, cultivating, leading and mentoring technology teams and cross-functional teams, formulating
business cases and ensuring value for money and the investment of
that other precious resource, TIME, in IT through software
and application development technology direction and management. My experience in
owning budgets,
managing change and risk management, engineering processes and
change
management, risk management methodologies
while consistently delivering ROI makes me a well-qualified VP of IT
or Director/Manager of Software/Application Development. I'm
quite happy rolling up my sleeves in hybrid functional/technical
roles and have held, hired or backfilled every role in application
development across the full SDLC.
I practice a strong focus on aligning technology with business
strategy through stragic and architectural tradeoff analysis, business functional and
technical requirements analysis, process engineering or
process re-engineering with multi-industry experience in workflow and
collaboration engineering, web application development initiatives
on the Microsoft .Net stack, SharePoint portals,
.Net solution architecture and
software development
implementations for both Line of Business applications and public
facing web initiatives. I can help
enterprises
in the following roles:
-
Manager of Application Development
-
Software Development Manager/Director
-
Senior Project Manager
-
Senior Program Manager
-
Web Product Manager/Web Producer
- .Net
Solution Architect
- Development Team Leader
- Senior Business Analyst
- SharePoint Portal
and Collaboration Architect
- Organic Search Engine Optimization and Content Management Expert
- SEO Architect
I am deeply experienced with the following methodologies and
technologies:
- Scrum/Agile Web Development
- Traditional Project Management Methodologies
- Business Requirements Analysis and Quality Assurance
- Business Process Mapping and BPR
- Joint and Rapid Application Development (JAD/RAD)
- OOD/OOP - Web Applications, Portals and Solution Architecture
- N-Tiered Application Development - .Net Web Development
- Mobile-Friendly Web Development - HTML 5, CSS, JQuery
- Progressive Enhancement/Graceful Degradation
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Internet Marketing, Organic SEO, Monetizing
Websites
- Content Management Systems, Content Metadata, Information Architecture,
Portal Taxonomies
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Atom Feed Content
Syndication
- SharePoint Portal Server for Collaboration, Knowledge Management and Enterprise Document Management
- Data Modeling
(Yourdon Methodology)
- .Net 1.1 - .Net 4.0 Framework Web Applications,
Websites and Web Architecture
- SQL Server, Database Design and
Development/SSRS
- Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)
- Enterprise Application Integration and Business Intelligence (BI)
- XML Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
My most recent engagement was a strategic IT development
and web marketing
initiative, an HTML5/CSS/jQuery over .Net web application development effort
with SEO/SEM/SMM components for
Manhattan's premier real estate developer. This project
emerged after serving as senior business analyst, solution architect and web developer for an in-house commercial
real estate leasing pipeline LINQ to SQL application with SharePoint list
integration. I designed and developed Silverstein Properties' tiffany
Manhattan residential real estate property website, Silver Towers
New York Apartments website. The new .Net site leverages HTML5,
CSS, jQuery and jQueryUI with near total cross-platform coverage for
desktop and mobile. This was an agile development
effort with progressive enhancement and graceful degradation.
I filled the senior project manager role, performed
business requirements analysis, strategic SEO/SEM/PPC/Social
Media Marketing research and established web
analytics, provided project timelines and cost
estimation/tracked burndown as well as web
solution architecture and .Net web
development, Google+ and Facebook integration on behalf of the CIO
and marketing. The resulting site performs very well in
organic search engine results placements (SERPs),
achieving a 71% increase in organic traffic, with
Alexa showing top 40,000 NY Metro market traffic rank.
I spent the two years prior evolving the .Net solution architecture and
developing Run My Website TM, a commercial quality, SEO-friendly CMS
that has repeatedly earned the Platform Ready badge for Windows
Server 2008/R2 and SQL Server 2008/R2 running in physical or Hyper-V
virtual environments and I launched several high-traffic public facing
websites to prove the technology, similar to what Northwind achieves
for Microsoft technologies. Example sites leveraging the Run
My Website and illustrating my success with organic SEO and Social
Media integration include
http://www.freehoroscopesastrology.com,
http://www.psychologistcounselorpsychotherapist.com,
http://www.silvertowers.com,
http://www.horoscope2012.org,
http://www.horoscopeastrologytarot.com and
http://www.angermanagementnyc.com.
I am a Google Engage Agency well-versed in Google Analytics,
AdSense Keyword Research tools and myriad other tools and search
marketing industry trends. As a full-service provider of web
application development and internet marketing services, I am also a
Microsoft Website Spark Web Pro and SPLA Service Provider, an Adobe
Business Catalyst partner, a Net Applications partner for web
analytics and monitoring, an Elastic Hosts partner for bare-metal
access cloud hosting and a GoDaddy reseller for web infrastructure
and tooling with several hundred domains under management, and I
have established and configured their Virtual Data Center.
I'm very well-versed in
the latest IT and application development trends as well as their history,
which affords me a big picture view of the IT and software
development landscape and to communicate effectively at all levels of an
organization. I have enterprise experience at the
Director/Manager of Application Development, IT and Software
Development Manager level and am seeking a Vice President of IT, VP
of Software Development, Director of Application Development or
Manager of Application Development role on a C2C or contract-to-hire
permanent basis.
Please feel free to download my
Manager of
Application Development Resume to learn more about me.
You can telephone or email to discuss
your specific needs. Initial consultations are free of cost and obligation
and I am currently interviewing for senior roles leading to
permanent employment.
Thank you for taking the time to view this page!
Fort Lauderdale/Boca Raton/Miami: 954 302 1853
New York City/Long Island/NJ/CT: 646 472 5739
eric@millenniummultimedia.net
I'm a former Manager of Application Development for ING and
started my career as a Technical
Associate at Credit Suisse First Boston on the permanent side
engineering development standards, methodologies, tools and
middleware for a team responsible for 2,000 developers world wide.
Most I was a senior project manager/tech lead, web/mobile solution architect and
Senior .Net web developer for Silverstein Properties in the Real Estate Sector.
I launched the first Clarion Partners intranet and the first Estee
Lauder intranet, as well as the first browser based electronic forms
processing and workflow application for the New York City Law Department
in an unprecedented paperwork reduction initiative. I have launched several successful SharePoint portals
for Government and Real Estate clients, and have designed and
developed numerous public facing websites and web applications that
serve Entertainment, Media, Publishing, Real Estate and Education
and Small Business/Professionals for example.
I have worked on a project basis or in permanent roles managing
application development, architecting web solutions and implmenting
those solutions as a senior web developer for small, medium and large enterprises for over a
decade, including
Silverstein
Properties, the
London Borough
of Bromley,
ING Real Estate (ING Clarion Partners), the New York City Law Department,
the Estee Lauder Companies,
Credit Suisse First Boston, Newmark
Knight Frank Global Real Estate Advisors,
Koch Records,
i-Deal (a heavy web services
implementation as Sr. Product and Program Manager at a partnership between Merrill
Lynch, Microsoft, Thompson Financial in the early days of SOAP) and many
others including 1iota Productions
on behalf of
MTV, VH1, ABC and the NFL.
I have broad IS and IT consulting experience through numerous engagements,
including the Entertainment, Retail, Government, Real Estate and Finance
sectors.
I've had a wonderful and rewarding career journey since May of 1997.
That's when I graduated Summa Cum Laude and Outstanding Graduating Senior
in MIS with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. My
combined concentrations
were in Marketing and Management Science and Information Systems (MIS)
and I minored in Computer Science at the State University of New York,
in Albany.
Today, as a Microsoft Partner with a Silver ISV Competency,
Websitespark provider, SPLA provider, Google Engage Agency, Go-Daddy
partner, Net Applications partner and Adobe Business Catalyst
partner, I am positioned to deliver best of breed solutions.
As a well rounded entrepreneur, technologist and internet
marketer, in each of my
consulting engagements and permanent placements, I help CIOs, business
line managers, marketing, hr, finance and their teams define
and deliver quality solutions to real problems.
Combining industry standards and best practices, my production
applications have stood the test of time and I have had the pleasure
of evolving systems through myriad technologies through the full
software development life cycle. I can hand code valid
HTML/XHTML/XML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 and XSLT. I also
leverage Microsoft tools such as Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project,
.Net, SQL Server, ASP.Net, VB.Net, C#.Net, SQL Server databases, Web
Parts and Web Services. I drive the development of websites, intranets,
extranets, portals, content management solutions and collaboration
workspaces including Windows SharePoint Services, and SharePoint
Portal Server to meet or exceed functional and technical business
requirements with extensible solution architecture and high quality
assurance.
From a business perspective, I have worked closely with HR, Finance,
Accounting, Marketing, Senior Management and Business Intelligence groups and gained insights
by working with non-technical to highly technical team members,
which allows me to anticipate problems and create opportunities
for these business divisions and units through practical experience with collaboration,
workflow, and process improvement.
I work closely with end users, middle and senior managers in and
outside of IT, as well
as with developers, operations and 3rd party vendors to tie projects together,
keep the focus on the mission and I deliver projects on time, within budget.
As a Senior Business Analyst, IT strategist, and .Net solution
architect, I strive to make sure the right problem is being solved,
in the right way.
In summary, I am a very senior consultant and a Director/Manager of Application
and Software Development on the Microsoft stack, especially .Net web
and SharePoint portal initiatives, with experience spanning infrastructure and operations, enterprise application architecture,
database design and data modeling and software implementations
leveraging , application development
methodologies. I focus on business strategy alignment with
technology strategy and development team leadership.
New York .Net Web Product Manager/Solution Architect: 646 472 5739
Broward/Palm Beach/Miami-Dade Software Development Manager: 954 302 1853
eric@millenniummultimedia.net
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I am a Microsoft .Net web application and SQL database specialist, a seasoned
web development director producing quality software as an
application development manager and team leader, and I architect and develop applications that solve business problems
and deliver measurable ROI.
I have been leading application, portal and web content
publishing/e-commerce
initiatives for over 13 years on both a permanent and corp. to corp.
consulting basis.
My primary focus is on improving the speed and accuracy of information
flows throughout organizations and between them and their customers and
vendors. I focus on process and seek to inject technology where appropriate,
to reuse organizational knowledge and preserve organizational memory.
I'm focused on making it easier for people to do their jobs, automating
the tasks that can be automated and simplifying those which can't be
fully automated, but can improve the operating efficiency of knowledge
workers.
I'm also focused on improving the bottom line by reducing costs
through greater efficiency, and where marketing and e-commerce are
involved, I'm focused on increasing the top line through integrated
marketing communication efforts in public facing websites.
Behind or in front of the firewall, I help my clients to fully realize
their business objectives efficiently and cost-effectively in their
application development efforts across the full process improvement
and software development life cycle: discovery and analysis (inception),
design (elaboration), implementation (construction), testing and maintenance
(transition).
My internet projects and legacy technology roles have run the gamut
over the past fourteen years. From mainframe to client-server to the web,
I've performed business and system requirements analysis, data and process
modeling, solution architecture, web application
development, configuration management, tool and vendor evaluations,
relationship management, implementations and rollouts, performance measurement,
quality assurance, technical writing and system evolution.
Inception
I begin by formulating and understanding the strategic vision and
scope for technology initiatives and then fully capturing and clearly
expressing all functional and technical requirements. To accomplish
this, I work closely with management, users and other project stakeholders
to understand, map and measure business processes, existing systems
and environments. Through joint application development sessions, interviews
and meetings, I encourage and facilitate the communication necessary
to ensure that any technology solution is completely aligned with business
objectives and that all stakeholders have input and buy-in.
Elaboration
Armed with a comprehensive understanding of the business and functional
requirements for systems, I bridge the gap between business and technology
by drafting technical requirements and architectural, application and
data design alternatives. I serve in the roles of, or lead, analysts,
architects, data modelers and developers. Alternatives are reviewed
with stakeholders and technologists, strengths and weaknesses are evaluated
so solutions can be selected, cost estimated and time-lined. These blueprints
serve as the foundation models for the remainder of the software development
life cycle.
Construction
Development is performed rapidly and iteratively with prototype demonstrations
and feedback from project stakeholders at established milestones.
Throughout this process, I can lead manage a project’s resources,
budget and timeline as well as the implementation effort, change and
configuration management during build, package and deployment. Project
leadership often requires that I get my hands “dirty” by establishing
the development environment, development standards or performing database
management, development, code reviews, quality assurance and release
management.
Transition
Finally, I help transfer knowledge to the maintainers of the system
and train the trainers in the application to ensure seamless adoption
and ongoing success.
I've led successful technology projects for:
- Silverstein Properties
- London Borough of Bromley
- ING Americas (ING Investment Management, ING Realty, ING Clarion
Partners, Clarion Capital, Clarion Realty Services)
- Newmark Knight Frank
- 1iota Productions (MTV Networks, VH1, ABC TV, The National Football
League)
- Western Connecticut State University (WCSU)
- The New York City Law Department
- Koch International (Koch Records)
- The Estee Lauder Companies, Clinique, MAC, Bobbie Brown
- Credit Suisse First Boston
- I-Deal (Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Salomon Smith Barney, Thomson
Financial)
- Visual Media
- Street Project NYC
I have a proven track record of providing hands-on leadership in
successful technology leadership over the full project lifecycle, from
inception to evolution.
These experiences have provided me with the "in the bones" knowledge
and technical credibility to lead project teams and to deliver
successful IT implementations, software development initiatives and
to lead application development as a director or manager. I believe leaders must not only talk the talk...they must also
walk the walk.
Past clients will tell you that I'm self-motivated, proactive and
I always get the job done. My client repeat rate is very high
and my references will confirm that I deliver.
My core competency and key value proposition lies in my ability to bridge the business, people
and technology aspects of each engagement.
Significant leadership responsibilities, high priority/high
visibility projects needing a hybrid business functional/technical
skillset matching my experience and surrounding .Net applications, public facing websites with search marketing or internal application development management roles in the .Net, web application development and SharePoint collaboration/ECM or workflow space are preferred. Longer term engagements with organizations that equally value business,
marketing, technical acumen and leadership skills are also preferred. Please don't
hesitate to approach me with your individual needs. We'll know each
other when we find each other! I'm open to corp. to corp., right to
hire or direct placement opportunities in South Florida, New York or
London.
Take care of yourself, be well and if you'd like to
contact me, I look forward to
discussing your needs! Be sure to have a look at my
resume first. If you are
prompted for a password, click cancel and the resume will download.
New York City Senior Project Manager/.Net Solution
Architect: 646 472 5739
Fort Lauderdale Manager
of Application Development: 954 302 1853
eric@millenniummultimedia.net
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